NEWBERRY, S.C. – The Indiana University of Pennsylvania baseball program had a rarity of sorts on Saturday, concluding last night's suspended contest on top of a doubleheader as the Crimson Hawks took part in three ballgames of various lengths, dropping each by scores of 18-6 (nine innings), 7-6 (ten innings), and 12-1 (seven innings).
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Markus Cestra led the offensive attack on the slog of an afternoon, racking up four hits in 11 at-bats (.364), three walks, two runs scored, a pair of RBIs and steals, plus a triple.
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Elijah Dunn was the Crimson Hawk who spent the most time on the basepaths, reaching safely a total of five times by way of three walks, a two-bagger, and a single.
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Harrison Pontoli and
Torrey Roper shared the lead for most run production at Newberry college, plating a trio of runs each but in very different fashions. Pontoli played station-to-station with two RBI seeing-eye singles plus a groundout while Roper went the opposite direction, accumulating all of his RBIs on one swing of the bat, a three-run moonshot to tie game two at sixes in the seventh, where it would remain until a walk-off victory by the Wolves in the tenth.
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Jason Madrak was the best pitcher for the men from Indiana on this particular Saturday with three scoreless frames of one-hit, one-walk work, sitting down two Wolves hitters and inducing four groundball putouts.
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A single ballgame remains in the four-game weekend set in Newberry, South Carolina with first pitch on tap at noon in the Smith Road Complex.
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